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bonzini • today at 8:37 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

The problem is that the original formulation was "most people" are unaware of being unskilled, but by now the name is used to mean "some group of people" is unaware of being unskilled. In that sense the article confirms that “a small number are", 5-6%, and therefore the effect exists in the colloquial sense but not in the scientific sense.

Mentioning the Dunning-Krueger effect incorrectly is wonderfully meta...

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qingcharles • today at 9:47 PM

The four levels of competence:

  [ Unconscious Incompetence ]  -->  "You don't know what you don't know"
             ↓
  [ Conscious Incompetence ]    -->  "You know what you don't know"
             ↓
  [ Conscious Competence ]      -->  "You know, but you have to think about it"
             ↓
  [ Unconscious Competence ]    -->  "You know it so well, it's second nature"
lokar • today at 8:39 PM

My experience with new CS grads was that most of them greatly overestimated what they knew, or alternatively, underestimated how much they did not know.

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bigfishrunning • today at 10:29 PM

I think it's beautiful irony that many people have the dunning-kruger effect specifically concerning the dunning-kruger effect itself

3form • today at 8:43 PM

I've seen at least 3 different ideas on this topic:

- people not skilled in a thing are bad at estimating their skills

- people are generally bad at estimating their skills

- people skilled in a particular areas often feel they are intellectually fit in other areas

Out of these three I feel like there's some truth in it, at least anecdotally.

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